The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! HUNTERS claim TO have seen snake 90 feet
long in Lake Koshkonong, Wis.
THERE are said to be only four horses in Alas
ka, three at Juneau and one a. Sitka.
THE Northern Presbyterian church contributed
last year 10 its ministerial relief fund Sl1S,SS0
| cash.
In the Atlantic coast cities the keeping of ALI
gators as pets is the newest craze among the
| fashionable people
| No sickly trammels condne art in Wisconsin.
Among the designs for a church window there
was one with three angels wearing bustles.
THE range of guns, like the vision of tele-
scopes, h IS been greatly heightened out. Guns
| that will throw a ball five miles have been In
vented.
AN ELECTRIC BELT, containing a dozen electric
cells and battery, for the use of firemen in
dark places, is TO be tested by the New York
| Fire Department.
UNCLE SAN is a citizen of some public enter
prise During the last fiscal year he has ex-
pended S2S41, 139 for sites, constructions OF II wv
buildings, and the repair of old ones.
BARON VoN PUrKAMMER, said to be a nephew
of the present German Minister of the Interior,
is employed in an Omaha restaurant. The
I cause OF his expatriation is unknown.
AN INSANE MAN jumped from a Burlington and
Missouri river train near Hastings Neb., while
hour recently, but escaped without injury.
| SARAH CooNEY, of Philadelphia, was put off a
street car becaus, she didn't have a transfer
| ticket, TO which she was EMIT ed She sued the
| company and obtained verdict of $50 DANA
ges.
| A GOAT with red beard inhabits certain
| islands of the Grecan Archipelago II is said
| to be found nowhere else In the world. speci-
men has recently been captured and sent TO
| Berlin.
| A MONSTER RATTLEsSAKE, which measured
nearly thirteen seet in length and was as large
around as a mans body, was killed near Table
quah !. T., a few days ago. II had twenty -four
| rattleS.
ANOTHER NOVEL by Judge Tourgee, called
"Block Ice will appear in February, and about
the same time he will publish Letters to a
| King, treating of the relations of religion to
| politics.
| CHINAMES ARE often not satisfied with this
country. One day last week a thousand Cinnamon
! left San Francisco for the flowery kingdom.
| They had not found this the Eden they had ex
pected to find ii.
| BosToN MAN. who is a manufacturer of raSp-
| berry JAM says that no raspberries at all are
used in making it. What is used, it appears, are
| tomatoes, glucose and haySeed and little pre-
pared raspberry flavor.
Il NO hANs says d
physician who is an enthusiastic vegetar an,
who eats pound of maccaroni daily, and the
balance of whose food is of kindred nature,
| will ever become drunkard."
| A GENTLEMAN who has been investigating the
records in the Prothonotary's Office at Reading,
| finds that Gil divorces were granted in Berks
| county between 1858 and 1886. 1t is estimated
that the number up to date is fully 500
The WIFE OF President Diaz, of Mexico, has
established in the City of Mexico a large
Friendly Home of the Workingwomen," at
which small children will be cared for during
the day while their mothers are at work
| A TREE was cut in the Skookum valley. in
Washington Territory, that scaled $4,000 feet,
| AS 81 80 per 1000 is the value of lumber there,
the tree was worth $252 50 1t is said that the
/ lumber lands in that locality will average ten
| such trees to the acre.
THE school census Of Lewiston, Me-, shows
that the children If foreign parentage outnum-
| Der the native Americans more than two to one,
| The number Of pupils according to nation lily
| is as follows; French Canadians p 767; Irish,
| 1923; American, ZOOS
A YOUNG OWL came flying over the buildings
on Grant avenue, in Garden City, Kan, the
other morning, and few straight as an arrow at
| man standing on the corner. When the bird
| reached him the man threw up his hands sud
denly and caught it as he would a ball.
ACCORDING to the Son Francisco Alta a
church organ in that city has been benefited
rather than injured by the accidental discharge
of bullet into it, The instrument was out of
| order, but since receiving the bullet has pro-
duced almost as good music as when new.
| woRKNEN who were digging ditch in Mont,
gomery county, Indiana, struck stratum of
earth resembling white clay, which turned black
on being exposed to the air Pieces of it. thrown
into the fire were found to burn fiercely The
substance is supposed to be coal of the first
| formation.
| Ar MooRE's Hill, ND, there occurred most
novel fight the other day. The contest was be.
tween a large Poland China boar and a
valuable but somewhat quarreSome, Jersey
scow The hog came out victorious, kill ng the
COW by striking her in the abdomen with his
tusk and severing an artery.
| A BEANEATING MATCH between a fat man and
lean man came off at st. Louis hotel recent
ly. The contestants davoured eight pos of
beans EACH then the slim man stopped unable
to eat more. The fat man kept on, finished his
ninth pot and was declared the winner. He had
eaten exactly nine pounds of beans.
THE GREEK CHURCH at Sitka Alaska is one
of the wealthiest ia the world, its treasure con-
sisting for the greater part in old paintings (
the saints set in frames of go Id and silver One
picture, present from the Car, is valued at
| $40 90 The massive doors of the church are
heavily inlaid with the precious metals.
CAPT. BAULDRY, of New Bedford, is particu-
larry successful whale catcher, With his
steamer. the Orca, he has in three seasons
made fortune. This year he killed 35 whales
but be had room for the oil of IS only and ,e
gave two whales to another steamer He
secured $500 barrels of oil and Is 00O pounds of
bone
THE number of telephones in use In the
United States is 341 $40, and the gross income
from the same for the year 1886 was S11 1850 900.
The expenses were 81, 000, coo, and the net earn.
ings S4.150,000. The number of miles of wire is
| 128,231. The subordinate telephone companies
obtain S26 81 net profit per subscriber af Ter pay
| ing S14 royalty to the parent company and all
expenses of the business.
THE son of a king is about to become a student
of the Medical College of Indiana His name is
Alfred NJ. Thompson, and he is a full blooded
Vey negro. known among his people as
| "Momora," son of Dowanna, King of the Up.
per Peron country, and Sapdymanda, Queen of
Jarbacca. He is about 20 years old, very well
educated. having studied tor some years past in
the mission schools at Cape Mount Africa.
A sTATIsTIcIAN figuring upon eggs and chickens
has concluded that in eighteen of the States the
annual average product per dozen per hen is as
follows: Maine, 7.5 Massachusetts, ~: Con.
necticut, IL; New Hampshire, 81; Rhode
Island, 81; Vermont, SO: Pennsylvania, So:
| New York, so; Indiana, so; Tennessee az:
| kentucky, 49, Iowa, AZ; Ohio 40; Illinois, a6:
| North Carolina, 3.6; Alabama 3.2; South Caro-
| lima, 81; Louisiana, 30